Sentences with phrase «water during a dry spell»

No more worrying about wasting water on your lawn when it just rained yesterday, or not using enough water during a dry spell.

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During the past decade, much of Australia was gripped by a fierce dry spell that sparked stringent water rationing measures throughout the southern and eastern parts of the country.

«Our results show that increased PsbS expression allows crop plants to be more conservative with water use, which we think will help to better distribute available water resources over the duration of the growing season and keep the crop more productive during dry spells.»

Water harvesting by collecting excess rain run - off for instance in cisterns — for supplementary irrigation during dry spells — is a common traditional approach in some regions such as the Sahel region in Africa, but is under - used in many other semi-arid regions such as Asia and North America.

The park has 330km2 of underwater forest, bush plains and of course, the centrepiece, Lake Manyara, which has alkaline waters with a pH level near 9.5 during the wet season but turns to a large area of mud flats during the dry spells.

But lots of signs are pointing to the current extraordinary dry spell, likely exacerbated by heat from human - driven climate change, taking California into conditions unexperienced since long before the state's water - dependent economy exploded during Gov. Jerry Brown's father's terms in office (please read Justin Wm. Moyer's great story on that era in the Washington Post).

This calendar year statistic spans a portion of two water years, which is very unusual for a dry spell of this intensity at any time during the historical record.